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different lines, should have met on common 

 ground. Chas. T. Simpson. 



Smithsonian Institution. 



EDUCATION AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION. 

 The general official catalogue of the Uni- 

 versal International Exposition of 1900 enu- 

 merates 121 classes distributed through 18 

 groups, of which group 1 is education and 

 instruction comprising 6 classes, viz ; 



1. Education of infants, primary instruction, in- 

 truction of adults. 



2. Secondary instruction. 



3. Higher instruction, scientific institutions. 



4. Special instruction, artistic. 



5. Special instruction, agriculture. 



6. Special instruction, industrial and commercial. 



Thirty political divisions are represented 

 in the exposition of class 3 and about 900 

 exhibits are found in the revised list. 

 France and colonies including Algeria and 

 Indo-China have about 500 exhibits, United 

 States 70, Hungary 65, Mexico 42, Eussia 

 36, Italy 21, Greab Britain 20, Portugal 20, 

 Croatia and Slavonia 17, Japan 13, Belgium 

 11, Eoumania 10, G-reece, Guatemala and 

 Norway 4 each, Austria, Bulgaria, Sweden 

 and Switzerland 3 each, Bosnia-Herze- 

 govina, Equador, Holland and Servia 2 

 each, and one each from China, Cuba, 

 Spain, Monaco, Eepublic South Africa. 



The jury passing on the awards to be as- 

 signed the exhibits is threefold ; first a j ury 

 of class comprising a certain number of 

 French jurors designated by the commis- 

 sion and at most an equal number of for- 

 eign jurors. The class jury's organization 

 consists of a president, vice-president (of 

 other nation than the president) , a reporter 

 and a secretary. The president, vice-presi- 

 dent and reporter of the class juries com- 

 prise the members of the group jury whose 

 organization is completed by the election of 

 a president, vice-president and secretary. 

 Thus the jury of the first group will be 

 composed of 18 members, 3 from each of 

 the 6 classes. 



The presidents and vice-presidents of the 

 18 groups will be members of the superior 

 jury with others provided by the commis- 

 sioners. 



The superior jury revises the work of the 

 group jury and determines any appeals pre- 

 sented to it by the lower juries. The group 

 jury revises the work of the class jury and 

 refers disputed questions not settled by the 

 group to the superior jury. The class jury 

 inspects the exhibits and assigns recom- 

 penses of five degi-ees, viz: 



1. Grand Prix, the highest. 



2. Diplomes, etc., Medaille d'or. 



3. " " d'argent. 



4. " " d'bronze. 



5. " " mention honorable. 



On the completion of the work of in- 

 spection the class jury presents two lists : 

 (1) a list of exhibits not competing by 

 reason of the exhibitor being a member of 

 a jury, or from other cause ; (2) a list of 

 the awards in alphabetic order, each di- 

 ploma grouped by itself irrespective of coun- 

 try ; e. ^., all the grand prizes, the gold 

 medals, etc. 



The jury of class 3, higher instruction 

 and scientific institutions, completed its 

 work on time, i. e., on or before June 30, 

 1900. To the 900 exhibits it assigned 64 

 grand prizes, 92 gold and 105 silver. The 

 bronze and honorable mentions were natur- 

 ally more numerous and all may be changed 

 slightly by revision. 27 grand prizes were 

 given to French exhibits, 9 to United States, 

 5 to Great Britain, 3 each to Hungary, 

 Japan and Eussia, 2 each to Belgium, Mex- 

 ico, Eoumania, Italy, and 1 each to Austria, 

 Canada, Croatia, Portugal, Norway and 

 Sweden ; total 64. 



France received 44 gold prizes, United 

 States 9, Eussia 8, Hungary 6, Great Britain. 

 5, Mexico 3, seven others 2, and three others 

 1 ; total 92. 



As the awards to the United States were 

 in several instances collective, i. e., one 



